Sentences with phrase «way of analogy»

This greatly extends the reflective loss principle, beyond that which could be derived by way of analogy from established authority.

«You can have the best word processing software, but it's not going to write the article for you,» he says by way of analogy.

By way of analogy Cialdini explains the phenomenon whereby people come to desire something more when it's made harder, or scarce, for them to obtain.

There was no reason why a similar rule should not apply by way of analogy so that the only facts to be proved to establish cause of action under reg 86 (1) were that work had been done under a certificate but that the certificate had been revoked.

Gadamer singles out human dialogue only by way of analogy» because that is the paradigm we know best, the model that will teach us our proper relation to the world.

By way of analogy, your car depreciates as it ages and wears out; you're devaluing it when you take a sledgehammer to the bonnet.

«Netflix is different from owning a movie theater,» explains Stein, by way of analogy.

(By way of analogy, I wouldn't ask you to relativise every statement not based on, say, non-empirical knowledge, so I don't see why I should.)

If God is a God of love, one way of making this assertion intelligible is by way of analogy to human love.

By way of another analogy, they may never hit the jackpot, but the repetitive pulling on the one - armed bandit creates the ching - ching sound of payoff coins hitting metal, and the buzz comes back.

By way of analogy, I tell my students that one can learn a great deal about a car by tearing it down into its component pieces and studying the form and function of each piece.

Black carbon could be seen as chocolate chips in baking, Doherty says by way of analogy.

«In a military academy, they don't teach trigonometry; they teach navigation,» Hannum suggests by way of analogy.

By way of analogy, the occurrence of large earthquakes is also very difficult to predict.

By way of analogy: if you have to build a dam for the coming flood, you could either divide up the work (fairly) and have everyone bring a certain amount of rocks to build the dam (top - down approach), or you could tell everyone to just bring what they feel like and hope it is enough («pledge - and - review» system, the alternative, to be explained below).

By way of analogy, if a manufacturer formulating a production policy were to ask only its sales department or its service department about the general level of customer satisfaction, the manufacturer would get a distorted impression — either that most customers are eager for quick delivery of new products or that most customers are concerned by flawed workmanship.

By way of analogy, would staring at a paper - based roadmap tell you in real - time how long your drive would take in current traffic the way Google Maps or Waze can today?

«If you want to learn the tango,» he said by way of analogy, «You get tango lessons, not therapy.»